home contract offer

You’ve made an offer on a home and the seller has accepted. Depending on your contract, this period (in some states called being “in escrow”) can go on for 30 days, 45 days, 60 days or more. To you, it may feel like someone put a ring on it: A promise has been made and…

You have finally found your dream home, and your offer is accepted. Yessss! Now comes the fun part: the mind-boggling fog of escrow and financing. To start, you’ll have to keep track of a ton of paperwork: not only the offer, but counter-offers, addenda and updates. Then there is your mortgage paperwork, which can be…